Right tree right place: vegetationmap4africa and Uganda Tree Finder
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The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), the University of Copenhagen and partners have developed a new version of vegetationmap4africa (www.vegetationmap4africa.org) map (ver. 2.0). The map with help identify species easily in the field and at the same time help scientists gain a deeper understanding of their natural environment.
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- 1. The Right Tree for the Right Place: vegetationmap4africa and Uganda Tree Finder Roeland Kindt, Paulo van Breugel, Erick Opiyo, Jens-Peter Lillesø, Lars Graudal, Ramni Jamnadass, Tor Vagen, Clement Okia, Daisy Ouya World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) University of Copenhagen (UCPH)
- 2. World Agroforestry Centre (http://www.worldagroforestry.org/ ) Agroforestry is a dynamic, ecologically-based, natural resource management practice that, through the integration of trees on farms and in the agricultural landscape, diversifies and sustains production for increased social, economic and environmental benefits. Trees in forests and on farms Collaborative programmes in different ecoregions
- 4. The Right Trees for the Right Place A. Trees for Products B. Trees for Services fruit firewood medicine income Sawn wood fodder Soil fertility Carbon erosion watershed shade biodiversity C. Trees for right place… Simple as ABC !?
- 5. Occurrences Species Percentage Cum. Percentage 300+ 1 0.1% 0.1% 200-299 3 0.3% 0.4% 100-199 31 3.1% 3.6% 50-99 63 6.4% 9.9% 30-49 107 10.9% 20.8% 10-29 184 18.7% 39.5% 1-9 220 22.3% 61.8% 0 376 38.2% 100.0% All 985 100.0% 100.0% Locations of 985 useful tree species www.gbif.org Biased locations … and some locations are wrong
- 10. www.vegetationmap4africa.org selection of tree species
- 11. www.vegetationmap4africa.org selection of tree species Each species is linked to web-based databases such as the ICRAF agroforestree Database, the Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA), the CABI Invasive Species Compendium, Tropical Forages or FAO’s ECOCROP database 26,135 plant species 33,813 including synonyms 242,505 hyperlinks (excluding ‘search’)
- 13. www.vegetationmap4africa.org smart phone version (via Locus app) Location of the user
- 14. Uganda Tree Finder • App developed with IUCN in KNOWFOR project (DFID) • Stand-alone app for basic smart phones (soon officially released on Google Play Store – currently final testing)
- 15. Uganda Tree Finder • App developed with IUCN in KNOWFOR project (DFID) • Same functions of selecting useful tree species • Option to capture and upload species and vegetation images (citizen science, confirm/contest species presence, restoration monitoring)
- 16. Uganda Tree Finder Pilot testing in Mt. Elgon region with IUCN, ICRAF and restoration partners (Uganda government, NGOs) Uganda Tree Finder All agreed that app is useful and user- friendly
- 17. Some other application domains Biodiversity monitoring BiodiversityR Open-source R package
- 18. The Right Tree for the Right Place: vegetationmap4Africa and Uganda Tree Finder Thank you very much for your attention – Roeland Kindt We highly appreciate our donor support, including DFID, the Rockefeller Foundation, Danida, BMZ, UNEP-GEF, the European Commission, IFAD, SIDA/SAREC, VVOB, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), and the Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) and CCAFS Research Programs of the CGIAR The vegetationmap4africa team and partners